Pope Leo XIV delivered his first homily as Bishop of Rome at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, where he took possession of ...

Celebrating his first Mass in Rome’s diocesan cathedral, Pope Leo XIV said communion is built primarily “on our knees,” ...

One of the largest and tallest obelisks in Rome is the Lateran Obelisk, originally commissioned in Karnak, Egypt around 1400 BCE under the reign of the Pharaoh Thutmose III and completed by his ...

Before various civil and military officials, Pope Leo XIV emphasized the spiritual and social dimensions of his episcopal ...

It was a truly hectic Sunday, May 25, for the American-born pope, as he visited the two major basilicas: St. John Lateran and ...

But as the Bishop of Rome, his actual seat is in a church on the other side of Rome called St. John Lateran. We associate popes with St. Peter's Basilica, standing between Bernini's great spiral ...

The most important church in Rome, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, is celebrating its 1,700th anniversary on Nov. 9. The church is the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome and the seat of the ...

The Diocese of Rome has planned a full year of events to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, which was dedicated on Nov. 9, 324. The church is the cathedral of ...

The remains of what appears to be a medieval palace where popes lived before they made the Vatican their home have been excavated in Rome prior ... of St John Lateran in the city center unearthed ...